The New Stack Podcast

Sirish Raghuram, Platform9: At AWS re:Invent

Episode Summary

Williams also had a chance to talk with Sirish Raghuram, Co-Founder and CEO of Platform9 regarding their company’s offerings for those moving to a cloud based workflow. Platform 9 makes private clouds for individual customers, whether they be enterprise-level or startups. Platform9 offers an open stack a as cloud managed service, where users can then sign up and get access to a private Amazon-like cloud platform. There is no hardware needed to run Platform9’s product, and it can pair with Linux or VMs so clients can bring their own service. Platform9 recently made their product available for V-Sphere, layering a non-invasive open stack in the process. Enterprise-level organizations currently running V-Sphere can use Platform9 direct from operation. This includes IO control, DRS storage, and other DevOps features without the need to re-tool them to fit. Additional features include SLA monitoring, troubleshooting, remediation, life cycle monitoring, and the ability to detect problems over time.

Episode Notes

Williams also had a chance to talk with Sirish Raghuram, Co-Founder and CEO of Platform9 regarding their company’s offerings for those moving to a cloud based workflow. Platform 9 makes private clouds for individual customers, whether they be enterprise-level or startups. Platform9 offers an open stack a as cloud managed service, where users can then sign up and get access to a private Amazon-like cloud platform. There is no hardware needed to run Platform9’s product, and it can pair with Linux or VMs so clients can bring their own service.

Platform9 recently made their product available for V-Sphere, layering a non-invasive open stack in the process. Enterprise-level organizations currently running V-Sphere can use Platform9 direct from operation. This includes IO control, DRS storage, and other DevOps features without the need to re-tool them to fit. Additional features include SLA monitoring, troubleshooting, remediation, life cycle monitoring, and the ability to detect problems over time.